Travel Blogs from London

... and the memorial fountain for Princess Diana. We also visited Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly Circus - we certainly walked a few miles on those days! I wish I'd had a pedometer on! The next morning saw us on the Tube again very early (6am) to make our way to the meeting point for the beginning of our 14 day "Cosmopolitan Europe " coach tour. Oct. 25-28. We had a great coach tour, but we were very tired and physically run down at the end of a hectic 14 days. Max's ...

... to miss not seeing Annie. It's been so much fun hanging out with her in London.

So, we caught the train to Vauxhall and then the Tube to South Kensington. We walked around the corner and we were at the Natural History Museum. There was a big queue but one of the staff told us to go the Exhibition entrance and we walked straight in - excellent!

It was a hike to get there - 2 tube lines and an overground train out to the sticks of Northern London... And then a Warner Bros bus . A small snag as we boarded the bus - realising we had no English pounds left, and the local ATM wouldn't recognise our cards - we had absolutely no cash and needed 10-pounds for the bus to get to the Harry Potter tour. Ben talked our way on promising to pay the full amount for the round trip on our way back. ...

... took in her first real London scene. For those who don't know, she has been desperate to get to London for years and of all the things we have planned this trip, whenever anyone asked what she was most excited about, her answer was always "just London generally". We jumped on the Original Bus Tour with the intention to just park our bottoms and enjoy the ride. This is my third time to London and it still takes my breath away and I was so happy to see Tanya feels ...

... French Connection so we were sure that we would be finding more stores that were higher end and maybe some fast fashion stores like River Island or All Saints. To our surprise the little shopping area mostly contained places to eat and food stands. Other stores included Monsoon a bathing suit store, and one other smaller fast fashion stores. The second floor of the complex was mostly taken up my a movie theatre called "Vue". After exploring ...